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The Century Just Broke (And No One Noticed) – us mil online psyops

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I did not know James was still creating content. I've never really been a fan of his writing style as it is a little too sensationalist for me, but he did produce a few really good videos prior to being canceled off YouTube. In my opinion he would reach a larger audience if the message was toned down a bit and would just stick to the verifiable facts. Sometimes people have interesting content to share but they convey it in a manor that quickly turns many people away.

Whatever the merits of this rambling, seemingly irrelevant piece might be, the title is quoted in a misleadingly wrong way; it's not the 'century', but the 'story of the century' that (allegedly) 'just broke'. OTOH I'm with the author when they say 'Meh.' for so do I.

Gave up after paragraphs bashing "lamestream" media. Just give us the story.

The story is that no one is going to tell you that the biggest perpetrator of psychological operations by steering opinions via online means, is the US government. And that no one in the media is going to tell you this.

Idk. Here in eastern Europe the biggest online psyop perpetrator is Russia, and mainstream media are constantly telling about it, without any effect. The result is if you ask random ppl in the street about geopolitics, you can get hairy stuff like Putin should be our president, blaming Soros for everything, they want to destroy us by changing gender of our children and forcibly taking them for adoption to homosexuals and whatnot.

But what I wanted to know, what the psyop actually does? Is it aligned with fox news or against or?

The psyop, all psyops, are different to what you think. It's not support for fox news. All media is just an arm of the governance structure.

The point is to frame what people are concerned/think about, and to offer options that are not harmful to the governance structure.

Politics, voting for Red or blue, is a great example of framing the conversation. Both parties appear to offer heartfelt, sincere differences, but are actually there to suck up people's energy and ensure it only goes where one way -> towards greater government. Vote blue or red and you have less rights, more restrictions, less power.... and that was the point all along.

There are plenty of countries with weak government that does not do much psyop on the citizens, and where the governance actively hurts itself.

But it does not automatically lead to more rights, less restrictions, more power (There is always a mobster class with more power, but I doubt that is what you want).

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